Dear God, If You Exist: Please Don't Cure Me - News - Bubblews
New post on Bubblews discussing the apparent phenomenon of the power of prayer "curing" a man with CP. You can read more about it at http://www.parents.com/blogs/to-the-max/2013/07/30/autism/god-isnt-healing-my-child-with-cerebral-palsy/.
Feel free to like the Bubblews post and share it around!...
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Don't Sanitize My Disability Justice
This may come as a surprise to some people, but disability justice doesn't mean "put ramps and elevators in", nor does it mean "hire the handicapped".
OK, so it means that a little bit. Access is nice. So are jobs. But there are far more pressing and disturbing issues to deal with. Just as the LGBTQ+ rights movement isn't exclusively about marriage, and the Black civil rights...
Monday, July 15, 2013
Dear Parent Advocates: It's Not About You
Dear parent advocates, parents of kids like me and so many more,
It's not about you.
Come to think of it, it's not about us either.
It's about society. It's about reinforcing the status quo. It's about which voices get amplified, and which voices get silenced. It's about contributing to a world that is already hateful and inaccessible to people like us.
The world listens to...
Thursday, July 11, 2013
The Opposite of Jealousy is Love
Dear Mom,
Dear Dad,
Dear Mommy, and Daddy
Mama, and Papa
Dear all the parents, of all the kids like me,
I know. You're jealous of those other parents. You're scared, and confused, and possibly even a little angry, because your child isn't typical, because life threw you for a loop, and now you're hearing confusing words like "autism", "cerebral palsy", "developmental delay", "Down Syndrome"....
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